A New Zealand mother is breastfeeding her bull terrier because she wants the dog to protect her baby girl as the pair grow up. Kura “Kat” Tumanako said she stopped breastfeeding her baby because her nipples were too big. Instead of wasting the milk, she began breastfeeding the puppy. The pup has been feeding twice a day for the past week.

Researchers in France, Belgium and Switzerland have developed a robotic cockroach, InsBot, which is capable of infiltrating a group of cockroaches, influencing them and altering their behaviour. Within a decade the inventors hope to use the robot to lure cockroaches to their deaths.

Thieves have stolen a huge 10-ton steel railway bridge from a rural area in Australia. Thieves used oxyacetylene equipment to cut the bridge into sections to remove it from the site. Police are investigating the incident.

Inspectors checking a car smuggler at the US Mexican border found a girl hiding inside a piñata. Border agents found the girl when they noticed a piñata that especially heavy. The girl’s mother and brother were also hidden in the vehicle.

A prosecutor known for being especially tough on drunken driving cases was charged with DUI after police stopped her with three children in her car Wednesday. The woman was found to have nearly three times the legal limit in Florida for drivers. If the prosecutor keeps her job, she will not be allowed to participate in drunken driving prosecutions.

Public schools in this Lodi, New Jersey, canceled classes for Thursday after more than two dozen youngsters were taken to the hospital with a mysterious skin rash. The outbreak was discovered Wednesday among kids and adults attending an after-school program at a local Boys and Girls Club.

The Senior Center in Belchertown, Massachusetts, will remain closed until at least Friday, as officials work to remedy problems that have caused a foul odor inside the building. Town officials noticed an intermittent sewer-like smell at the building over the past few weeks that was strongest in the women’s bathroom near the front entrance.